Steering Group

A steering group was established in March 2013 to manage the project and includes the following individuals:

Professor Patricia Kearney

Dr Ronan Canavan

Dr Tony Fitzgerald

Dr Sheena Mc Hugh

Dr Claire Buckley

Ms Marsha Tracey

National Diabetes Working Group

Professor Kearney is a member of the National Diabetes Working Group, an interdisciplinary working group consisting of representatives from relevant diabetes related healthcare professionals and consumers. The group acts as an advisory committee to the National Diabetes Programme and also provides national advice on diabetes management.

Diabetes Services Implementation Groups (DSIG)

There are four DSIG’s which are clinically led regional networks, divided into the following regions:

Dublin North East (DNE)

Dublin Midlands (DML)

South and

West

They consist of key stakeholders and are all striving to implement key principles of the Diabetes Programme. They feed into the National Diabetes Working Group and their strengths lie in that they provide:

Specific knowledge of the needs of the local diabetes population

Relevant data to inform the Programme and the National Service Plan

Involvement of people with service delivery responsibility to inform model design

Assisting with design and agreeing the model of care

Assisting with implementation, monitoring and review

ESPRIT
Research Group

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